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ISKME’s Action Collabs are dynamic workshops that use the design-thinking framework to innovate new ideas with actionable next steps. Collaboration and ideation happen in four steps: research, design, prototype, and scale and spread. Throughout the experience, participants engage in improv activities (the improvisational method of achieving cooperation) to accelerate...

The annual Big Ideas Fest is an extraordinary immersion into collaboration and design that focuses on transformational change in K-20 education. Creative doers and thinkers from diverse levels of education gather to learn from and share with each other. Breaking down silos and empowering champions, Big Ideas Fest places learning at the front and center of all that we...

ISKME’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Training Program is tailored for K-20 formal and informal educators to support knowledge sharing and continuous improvement of resources used in teaching and learning. The OER Training Team meets educators at their current level of familiarity and builds a program that...

In 2008, ISKME conducted a study to examine the feasibility of and design for an initiative that engages teachers, learners, and practitioners in the collaborative process of developing, using, and improving freely available Open Educational Resources (OER) in the arts and in social justice. That work revealed an opportunity to increase greater creative,...

We build capacity for large-scale educational change through innovative trainings and professional development workshops. We focus on increasing access, use, and reuse of what really matters to the field of education--data, information, and knowledge.